Cornell & Diehl Old Joe Krantz Red Label

The one half ounce sample bag I received from an Ebay seller did not have the ingredients listed on it. We might think that this is Old Joe Krantz with a small amount of Latakia in it, and we would be partially correct. OJK Red Label has both Latakia and black Cavendish added to the original ingredients, and this makes it a new blend. We are told that it was formerly tinned as Bag Piper, but Bag Piper was various Burleys with a small amount of Latakia added. Also, Bag Piper was flavored with both deer tongue and an alcohol-based agent. I repeat - OJKRL is a brand new blend and I am reviewing it as such. So, what Cornell and Diehl have done here is to introduce us to, yet, another English blend in a very crowded field of English blends. As such, I have to label OJKRL as a light English, and it has to compete with all the other light English blends that exist. It does this quite handily in my opinion. The underlying base of Virginia, Burley and Perique has much the same punch as original OJK, and that makes it a very good smoke. OJKRL has a richness that we all like in pipe blends and it delivers an all around quality smoke that makes you want to smoke it again (and again). The bottom third of each bowl was still a good smoke, unlike so many pipe blends that sink into a gray ashy area. This is one of the best light English mixtures I have smoked in some time and I have no problem giving it four stars.